Until I met my wife, I didn’t do karaoke for pretty much this reason. Not Hope in particular; just lots of people think they can sing and they’re not actually fun to listen to.
My wife and her brothers and sisters were gifted with gorgeous singing voices and good taste in both music and karaoke companions. So I go to karaoke with them. And they tolerate me because I stick to things I can sing, which is typically just a song or two in the catalogue, because I have the range of a bullfrog.
This song has a special place in my heart. My partner of nearly twenty years (and friend of ten years before that) says this song makes her think of me. Ever since she told me that, I’ve kind of thought of it as “our song”.